On 02/03/2020 20:02, Asha Santon wrote:
On 2020-03-02 17:50:09 +0000, said:


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I like your website but just a few more comments.

Why thank you. We nearly like it. I will deal with your points in turn.
I do not wish to appear dismissive or anything less than happy so some
lengthy explanations follow.


If you want to report Weather then Place, and Time of dayÂ* would be
informative.

The time of day is always 'now'. The site is updated randomly but
regularly by someone somewhere and usually more often than the weather
changes. As for place ...

I know you are in Scotland but it is a big area.

It is and on reading your comments, I checked the 'About' page and it
does indeed just say Scotland on it.
At a convenient point thereafter, I lightly strangled the writer of that
page and it should be clarified this evening although I haven't had time
to check. Thank you for noticing - we didn't.


kmh, you mean km/h.

Umm no, we don't. Everyone we know both here and on mainland Europe uses
kmh. We did check on that and it seems there is no standard abbreviation
with several in use. Some news outlets use kph but we don't like that.

Does anyone use km/h for speed in Scotland?

Two things there.
Aside of friends and family, almost none of our website visitors are in
Scotland and most are not in the UK.
When we were at school (cue violins) maths topics were taught in metric
(aside of bases such as hex etc). Geography topics were taught primarily
in metric with miles and stuff mentioned only in passing.

mph or knots is better.

Only if you know instinctively what they mean.
None of us are into sailing or whatever so knots are things tied in
string, not speeds :-)
Mph is meaningless to us. For road use, the speed limit is just a number
and as long as we drive under that number on the dial, no flashing blue
lights. Distances on sign posts, we mentally recalculate so they have
meaning.
For wind speeds, we have no idea what 10mph feels like until we convert
it into kmh.


Your weather category/symbol for Mainly dry is amusing.

I very much agree with you on that. It may even be silly.

What does it represent?

On our screens, it appears as a horizontal white line with something
hanging on it.
It represents washing - the sign of a mainly dry day.

To me it looks like a sheet of toilet paper.

It did to me a week or so ago. The first version of it had a shorter
white line so it was less obvious.
Perhaps the line needs to be a bit thicker - don't want it to break :-)

Thanks again - your comments are appreciated.

Asha.

Just a couple of comments. Wikipedia says you can use km/h (the SI
symbol) or abbreviations kph, kmph, or km/hr) See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilometres_per_hour.

With regard to wind speed units, Len is probably thinking of aviation
weather reports (METARs), where knots for speed and feet for cloud
height are used, even by the French. But the synoptic observation code
(SYNOP), which is used to exchange current weather information globally
has a code fragment which says whether m/s or kts are used. Hence the
French report in m/s and the British in kts.

But it's your website, so you get to choose the units (and their
abbreviations) you want.

Your comment about flags being able to be flown upside down, is
incorrect. More can be flown upside down than not. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galler...gn_state_flags

Flying a state flag upside down is a statement that the ship so doing is
in trouble. What a French ship would do in this circumstance is
something I've never found out.

Hope this helps.